NCSHP 153 NC Geography Exam Questions with Correct Answers What's the 3 topographical regions in NC? - Correct Answer Coastal Plains, Piedmont Area, Mountain Region List the boundaries of NC - Correct Answer Virginia (N), Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W) What's the state motto? - Correct Answer Esse Quam Videri What does the state motto mean in English? - Correct Answer To Be, Rather Than To Seem What's the state bird? - Correct Answer Cardinal (Red Bird) What's the state flower? - Correct Answer Dogwood What's the state tree? - Correct Answer Pine Tree What's the state insect? - Correct Answer Honeybee What's the state mammal? - Correct Answer Grey Squirrel What's the state fish? - Correct Answer Channel Bass (Red Drum) What's the state vegetable? - Correct Answer Sweet Potato What is NC's total population? Where does it rank in regards to total population nationally? - Correct Answer 10,497,741 / 9th most populous state List all 5 major interstate highways in NC. - Correct Answer I-26, I-40, I-77, I-85, I-95 1 / 2
Name the longest U.S. Highway in NC, and the 2 cities that it stretches to across the state. - Correct Answer U.S. 64 / Manteo to Murphy Name the oldest town in NC, and what year was it built? - Correct Answer Bath, NC / 1705 What are the 4 reasons we should know NC's geography? - Correct Answer In case of: Disasters, Strikes, Apprehensions, Special Assignments Who led an expedition into the interior of NC on a journey to claim the area for the Spanish colony, and in what year? - Correct Answer Captain Juan Pardo / 1567 Who is the State capital named after? - Correct Answer Sir Walter Raleigh Who granted a charter to Sir Walter Raleigh? And in what year? - Correct Answer Elizabeth I / 1584 What is the Roanoke colony known for? - Correct Answer "Lost Colony" / remains one of the great mysteries of American history Who was the first English child to be born in North America, and when? - Correct Answer Virginia Dare / August 18, 1587 What county is named after the first English child to be born in North America? - Correct Answer Dare County Who granted a charter to start a new colony in the year 1663? What was this new colony called? - Correct Answer King Charles II / Carolina (in honor of his father "Charles I" What year did the Carolina colony split into North and South Carolina? - Correct Answer 1710 Who was the first governor of NC, and in what year? - Correct Answer Edward Hyde / 1712 What city became the first fixed capital of NC, and in what year? - Correct Answer New Bern / 1770
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